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Willow Creek Review

Setting out for back waters California, with his skeptical girlfriend in town, Bigfoot devotee Jim (Johnson) resolves to prove that the legend has some truth behind it. He gets a lot more than he bargained for along the way.

★★★★★

Written and directed by strangle-voiced eccentric Bobcat Goldthwait, this is a surprisingly straightforward slow-burn, Bigfoot-themed found-footage film. Bigfoot-believer Jim (Bryce Johnson) and his sceptical actress girlfriend Kelly (Alexie Gilmore) drive out to Willow Creek, a Californian backwoods town, to shoot a documentary at the site where 1967 home-movie footage (“the Patterson-Gimlin film”) showed the American yeti wandering out of the trees. After a light and chatty stretch, things get down to the usual business of being scary. A 19 minute inside-the-tent segueing from embarrassment to terror is a highlight.